While we tend to focus on prose here, let’s not forget the art of poetry and all it can bring to our souls and to our prose. Barbara O’Neal extols the powerful nutrition of poetry, and Clare Langley-Hawthrone explores her love of poetry and the lack of poetry in schools today.

Once we decide to publish our writing, we need to understand many legal issues we didn’t need to know when we were hobbyists. Brad Frazer explains the doctrine of “fair use,” while Helen Sedwick discusses defamation.

We all are searching for new, better ways to market our books. Maggie Marr has her top 5 book promotion tips. In addition to those tips, book bloggers are a great way to get the word out. To get started finding bloggers right for you, check out The Book Blogger database, which is searchable by genre.